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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7281367 | Steerable, intermittently operable rocket propulsion system A propulsion system including an extinguishable rocket motor and an incorporated maneuver control system. The rocket motor may be of the solid fuel type. One or more proportional axial thrust valves in communication with a pressure vessel or motor case containing a ... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7256320 | Method for defeat of bulk chemical warfare agents A method for immobilizing at least one hazardous chemical, comprising the steps of breaching a container having a bulk chemical agent, adding a rheological modifier into the container, and dispersing the rheological modifier within the container so as to promote int... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7178828 | Gas generator The present invention provides a gas generator (10) that includes a housing (12) formed from coupling a cap (14) and a base (16) in nested relationship. At least one attachment member (20) is preferably formed symmetrically about a... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7162958 | Distributed charge inflator system An inflator includes a distributed charge to be distributed within an inflatable component of an inflatable system and a housing. The housing includes a combustion chamber and a gas storage chamber. The combustion chamber includes an initiator and a gas propellant. ... | 01/16/2007 |
| 6966176 | System and fabrication method for actively cooling high performance components The present invention is directed toward a coolant system and method for fabricating a coolant system for actively cooling high performance components utilizing a plurality of feed channels that receive coolant from a manifold through coolant feed tubes and supply c... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6226979 | Propellant grain capable of generating buffered boundary layer for reducing rocket nozzle recession This rocket motor propellant grain is designed to reduce recession of at least the converging portion of a converging/diverging rocket motor nozzle. The propellant grain has an oxidizer-deficient grain portion constructed and arranged in relation to the n... | 05/08/2001 |
| 5313784 | Solid fuel pinwheel power plant and method A low noise power plant (100) for providing thrust to a missile (102) having a solid fuel propellant (114) for generating a pressurized gas. A revolving turbine (104) which is integral with the solid fuel propellant (114) converts the pressurized gas to r... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5062593 | Solid-propellant-powered maneuvering system for spacecraft An improvement to a variable-pressure solid-propellant-powered maneuvering ystem for spacecraft, enabling the system to operate for longer than one propellant burn time. At least two solid propellant gas generators are connected via a manifold to a plurali... | 11/05/1991 |
| 4732092 | Pyrolysis and combustion apparatus A system for pyrolysis and combustion of combustible solid material, such as waste, which comprises a pyrolysis chamber having a series of spaced vertically disposed movable grates, forming a plurality of stages in the pyrolysis chamber and permitting dow... | 03/22/1988 |
| 4671744 | Self-contained propellant driven turbofan An integral turbofan/solid propellant gas generator air induction system features in a single device a solid propellant gas generator and a turbofan which are operative, when activated, even after long periods of storage, to take ambient air and compress ... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4599044 | Electronic feedback area control system for TVC gas generator In a thrust vector control system of the type in which a solid-propellant s generator powers a turbine-driven pump for driving hydraulic actuators for controlling the direction of thrust, the improvement being a feed back control system in which a variabl... | 07/08/1986 |
| 4591314 | Hydraulic power supply system utilizing a solid propellant gas generator A hydraulic power supply system utilizing a turbine-driven pump in a hydraulic circuit and a solid propellant gas generator providing gas for driving the turbine. A gas pressure relief valve is operable to maintain the gas generator at constant pressure a... | 05/27/1986 |
| 4578947 | Single cast rod-in-tube solid propellant rocket motor grain with a torispherical dome A single cast solid propellant rocket motor grain having a centrally positioned rod portion integrally connected to an outer cylindrical portion at a base portion and comprised of a unitary solid propellant rocket motor grain wherein the central rod porti... | 04/01/1986 |
| 4494373 | Fail safe rocket motor In a rocket motor having an insulative coating on selected portions of the xterior casing, one or more ribs are used to structurally strengthen portions of the casing and to reinforce thermal stress patterns which will cause failure venting at a predetermi... | 01/22/1985 |
| 4442666 | Fuel fire resistant motor The invention describes a rocket motor having a thermal barrier around a sile casing with gaps along the side to permit initial burning on the outer portion of the grain at rupture of the casing and venting prior to burning over the inner bore to avoid e... | 04/17/1984 |
| 4305908 | Gas generator A gas generator comprises a housing accommodating a combustion chamber with a hollow solid-reactant charge, and a cooling chamber with a solid sublimating coolant, separated by a partition with an axial passage, and a sleeve with a perforated side surface... | 12/15/1981 |
| 4099376 | Gas generator and solid propellant with a silicon-oxygen compound as a burning rate modifier, and method for making the same 2. An article of manufacture useful as a gas generator and comprising a container having an outlet and supported and adapted to burn within said container and adhered to the walls of said container a mixed, shaped and cured composition of matter character... | 07/11/1978 |
| 4022020 | Debris catcher for thrust termination ports Apparatus to reduce the degree of contamination in front of a solid propellant rocket motor following actuation of thrust termination devices. By erecting a debris catcher over the ports through which the thrust termination contamimates pass, a few large ... | 05/10/1977 |
| 3990407 | Explosively powered rotary tool An explosively powered tool or wrench is described that is operable under water and provides high torque, approaching that of an impact wrench, through the detonation of small charges to generate pressure for driving pistons of an expansible chamber motor... | 11/09/1976 |
| 3988888 | Filter/cooler A filter-cooler is provided for use with a rocket motor to cool and filter ighly aluminized hot gases from around 5800° F to around 2000° F. The cooled and filtered gases are then usable, for example, in thrust vector control mechanisms. A decomposable c... | 11/02/1976 |
| 3966663 | Fire-retardant insulation for rocket motors A tetrabromo compound, e.g., tetrabromophthalic anhydride (TBPA) and tetromophthalimide (TBPI), their salts and derivatives, when employed as additives to the inert components when these inert components are being compounded or as crosslinking agents for... | 06/29/1976 |
| 3952506 | Rocket motor construction A solid propellant grain for a rocket is encased in and bonded to an elastomeric insulation sheath. Stresses that would occur between the propellant grain and the rocket case as a result of differential expansion and contraction if the grain were bonded t... | 04/27/1976 |
| 3945202 | Rocket containing lead oxidizer salt-high density propellant A propellant including a binder, a curative for the binder (whenever necessary), an oxidizer and a fuel additive are provided. The oxidizer has a relatively high value of specific gravity or density and is stable even at relatively high temperatures and i... | 03/23/1976 |
| 3943856 | Hot gas generators, powder charges therefor, and process of production thereof In a hot gas generator with lamellar powder charge, the charge comprises a plurality of powder lamellae disposed side by side at regularly spaced intervals and projecting from a flexible shoe in which they are anchored by partial penetration into the shoe... | 03/16/1976 |
| 3942320 | Solid boron fuel burner for ramjet A solid boron fuel burning ramjet engine having a cylindrical primary burner located within a ramjet combustion chamber. A portion of the air bypasses the primary burner to provide secondary burning at the outlet of the primary burner. Solid boron fuel pe... | 03/09/1976 |
| 3931709 | Method of loading a solid fuel rocket engine One or both ends of the body of a solid fuel rocket engine is provided with an internally thickened portion, which serves for the mechanical attachment of additional parts, that is the rocket head or the rocket base, to the end of the engine body, without... | 01/13/1976 |
